European Natural Track Luge Championships 1971

The 2nd FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 26th to 28th, 1971 in Vandans , Austria . The Austrian team won both single-seater competitions and eight out of nine medals, the Italian team won the double-seater.

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Anton Obernosterer	10: 35.49 min
02	Gottfried Lexer	+ 4.55 s
03	Erwin Eichelberger	+ 7.33 s
04th	Karl Flacher	?
05	Johann Ortner	?
06th	Josef Hilgarter	?
07th	Robert Jud	?
08th	Karl Diensthuber	?
09	Albert Glanzl	?
10	Manfred Mittelberger	?
11	Heinz Gdanitz	?
12	Ernst Scheuchl	?
13	Ernst Stangl	?
14th	Richard Hutter	?
15th	Erwin Pitter	?
16	Erich Graber	?
17th	Kassian Hellweger	?
18th	Josef Ploner	?
19th	Josef Niedermair	?
20th	Helmut Tagwerker	?
21st	Hubert Oberhammer	?
22nd	Hans Graber	?
23	Ernst Buchwieser	?
24	Siegfried Graber	?
25th	Albert Brunner	?
26th	Julij Ulčar	?
27	Paul Mitterstieler	?
28	Franz Kurz	?
29	Josef Amhof	?
30th	Brane Štefelin	?
31	Walter Bartl	?
32	Anton Ostler	?
33	Hans Kägi	?
34	Peter Resman	?
35	Janez Zupan	?
36	Peter Vötter	?
37	Lojze Marcun	?
38	Janez Končan	?
39	Erich Hedinger	?
40	Rolf Kramer	?
41	Bogo Vidic	?
42	Franz Schädler	?
43	Werner Sele	?
44	Christian Beck	?
45	Leopold Schädler	?
46	Bertram Beck	?
47	Poldi Schädler	?

After their triple victory at the first European championship last year, the Austrian team achieved a six-fold victory in the men's singles this year. The gold medal went to Anton Obernosterer , who was second last year. Silver went to Gottfried Lexer , who was third a year earlier. Erwin Eichelberger won the bronze medal . The defending champion Ernst Stangl finished 13th.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Klara Niedertscheider	10: 57.13 min
02	Annemarie Ebner	+ 19.26 s
03	Ruth Oberhöller	+ 22.48 s
04th	Margarethe Moser	?
05	Brigitte Theiner	?
06th	Irmgard Figl	?
07th	Josefine Berger	?
08th	Maria Kofler	?
09	Kordula Gritsch	?
10	Helga Heinzle	?
11	Marlene Holzner	?
12	Barbka Tišlar	?

Austrian triple victory in the women's singles: Klara Niedertscheider became European champion with a lead of more than 19 seconds over silver medalist Annemarie Ebner . Ruth Oberhöller won the bronze medal .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Siegfried Graber - Josef Niedermair	5: 24.87 min
02	Anton Obernosterer - Gabriel Obernosterer	+ 0.85 s
03	Siegfried Wild - Othmar Hofer	+ 5.12 s
04th	Helmut Kleinhofer - Karl Flacher	?
05	Johann Ortner - Gottfried Lexer	?
06th	Ernst Scheuchl - Karl Plieseis	?
07th	Ernst Stangl - Erwin Eichelberger	?
08th	Robert Jud - Albert Brunner	?
09	Heinz Gdanitz - Franz Kurz	?
10	Josef Ploner - Kassian Hellweger	?
11	Josef Amhof - Hubert Oberhammer	?
12	Julij Ulčar - Brane Štefelin	?
13	Rolf Krämer - Erich Hedinger	?
14th	Janez Zupan - Peter Resman	?
15th	Paul Mitterstieler - Peter Vötter	?
16	Ernst Buchwieser - Hans Zwerger	?

The Italians Siegfried Graber and Josef Niedermair won the doubles , thus winning the only medal at this European Championship for Italy. The silver medal went to Anton and Gabriel Obernosterer . Anton Obernosterer was European champion with Josef Lexer last year . Third place went to Siegfried Wild and Othmar Hofer .

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Austria	2	3	3	8th
2.	Italy	1	-	-	1

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of FIL 1957–2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 314 .

Web links

• Time – distance – results: tobogganing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1971, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).